The art of diary writing January signals not only the arrival of a new year – for many, it will also open another chapter of obsessive diary-writing. What drives these solitary scribblers?

I thought it would be useful to keep a diary of those two weeks, bearing in mind that I had first visited this town as an anthropologist in 1969 and had returned almost every year since then.

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Ever since the U.S. Senate voted this month to subpoena all 8,400 pages of the personal diary of Sen. Robert Packwood (R.-Ore.), many diligent journal-keepers have been cringing. Especially for tee… ...

IF you want your children to get better at writing, buying them a diary for Christmas could be a big help.

But then I came across John Steinbeck’s writing diary from when he worked on The Grapes of Wrath, which was itself published as a book and highlighted (with copious examples) by Maria Popova ...